How does terminal illness change a writer’s style? Horacio Castellanos Moya looks at Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas and his Viaje a La Habana which Arenas wrote while dying of AIDS.
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Horacio Castellanos Moya profiles Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas and ponders how much impending death affects a writer’s style.
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“La relación entre distintas generaciones literarias responde muchas a veces a un movimiento pendular: la nueva generación se mueve hacia el extremo opuesto de las posiciones estéticas, y a veces políticas, de donde se ubicaba la generación anterior.”
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Horacio Castellanos Moya examines how literary trends in Latin American countries are often a backlash against the trends that precede them.
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“Más de una vez me he preguntado qué tipo de escritor hubiera sido, qué tipo de obra hubiera escrito, si no hubiera pasado tantas y tantas horas de mi vida en una barra, en el derroche de las energías vitales y en la saturación de los sentidos.”
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“More than once I’ve asked myself what type of writer I might have been, what type of works I might have written, if I hadn’t spent so many hours of my life in a bar, squandering my vital energy and saturating my senses.”
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[En Español] In this week’s Corkscrew Horacio Castellanos Moya explains the possible effects Mexico’s recent presidential election could have on the country’s future.
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Author Horacio Castellanos Moya explains the intense debate that has developed in Mexico over whether or not the Institutional Revolutionary Party’s (PRI) return to power will lead to a “restoration” of the old authoritarian order.
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Cuba has declared this year to be “The Year of Virgilio” in honor of Virgilio Piñera, a writer it once imprisoned. A pioneer of absurd literature and theater, author Horacio Castellanos Moya writes an overview of Piñera, his life and works, in this week’s column.
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Writer Horacio Castellanos Moya examines how journalists, not writers and intellectuals, are the new targets of the powerful elite. In Latin America, pursuing investigative journalism, like that of Lydia Cacho, can be a death sentence.
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Sampsonia Way's companion guide to City of Asylum’s Exiled Voice of China and Tibet literary event, featuring standout pieces from its three year coverage of exiled and persecuted writers. READ
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